The Railway Station

At the end of Via de Larderel and Viale Carducci, the facade of the railway station.
Alla fine di via de Larderel e viale Carducci, la facciata della stazione ferroviaria.

Railway Faces

In 1910, when they built the railway station of Livorno Centrale, it was probably fashionable to put a series of faces like this one on the side of the platforms roof.

Smaller and sometimes not yet repainted heads are placed on the side of all the platforms roofs.

The bigger faces are present only on the elevated roof of the first track. By the way, this is the train that was carrying cieldequimer of Versailles Daily Photo and her friend Catherine to Livorno.

See also: Livorno Centrale - Livorno Train Station

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Livorno Train Station

The facade of the Livorno Centrale railway station

The railway station in the 1910s

(Postcard digitized from the collection of Antonio Cantelli)

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See also: Livorno Centrale

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Greetings from Livorno

Greetings from Livorno! We are back from Venice,

but our train, as far as Florence, was more like this one.

(Postcard digitized from the collection of Antonio Cantelli)

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Happy Birthday

One of my Stefano friends just reminded me that our main railway station, “Livorno Centrale”, will be one hundred years old today.The station was built when, in the first decade of the 2oth century, Livorno was linked through Vada, a seaside village where my family comes from, to the coastal trunk line for Rome.How this old postcard shows, there was a great celebration then, with lights along the main streets and squares. The ceremony took place with the partecipation of the King, Vittorio Emanuele III.The tracks today, with a bench ready for another blog of mine.

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Clocks

All of these clocks are on buildings facing “Viale Carducci”, the tree-lined avenue linking the railway station with the city center. The first image shows one of the four dials on the tower of the church of “Sant'Andrea”, just opposite the “Cisternone”.At the other end of the “viale” we find the clock towering over the entrance of the main railway station, “Livorno Centrale”.About half-way we can see the clock of the former Pirelli factory, now a community center and part of the “Parterre” park.

Livorno Centrale

With the station of Ardenza now closed, Livorno has four still active railway stations: Centrale, Calambrone, Antignano and Quercianella-Sonnino. Calambrone has no passenger traffic and only local trains call at Antignano and Quercianella-Sonnino, so we are left with the main station: “Livorno Centrale”.The new station was built in 1910 to position Livorno on the Genoa-Rome line, replacing the old “San Marco” station. The main building faces “Piazza Dante” and its public gardens, from where “Viale Carducci” and then “Via Grande” form an axis straight to the “Porto Mediceo”.The building was recently renovated and is a terminus for several local bus lines. From here you can travel by train to Pisa in fifteen minutes, to Florence in one hour and twenty minutes and to Rome in three hours (two with an Eurostar).

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